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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 15h

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18h

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s diarrhea video will probably benefit from the fact that it’s so gross TV news shows probably won’t want to air it for standards reasons alone.

Trump probably benefited from the same thing just a few days before the 2024 election when he pretended to blow a microphone and TV ignored it

Donald Trump Mimes Blow Job as He Vents About His Mic Setup, Threatens to ‘Knock the Hell Out of People Backstage’ | Video

Social media has a field day with Trump’s lewd gesture as he shows how he worked around the microphone situation The post Donald Trump Mimes Blow Job as He Vents About His Mic Setup, Threatens to ‘Kno...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 8h

That AI slop is like a story a 3-year-old makes up when they get mad at another toddler: "Then I put on my crown and get into my airplane. It says on the side that I'm the king. I fly up so high over the stupid people. I throw poop down all over the mean people. They cry and cry, but I just laugh."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

You could have slapped this picture of Trump wearing a crown and garish make-up on any protest poster today. They don't dispute who he is, they celebrate it.

Truth Social image of Trump wearing makeup and a crown in a plane

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 5h

The Vice President owns himself by overlooking that he isn't the successor if Trump is a King.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

i hope mike johnson is seething while checking his son’s porn history

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 8h

Official count estimates are up - before it was "nearly 7m" then it was "roughly 7m" now it is officially "more than 7m." Trend is up!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 9h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 9h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Russell Vought: The Shadow President

YouTube video by ProPublica

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 8h

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog

ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9h

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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Zach W. Lambert @zachwlambert.bsky.social · 7h

To all the parents who brought us up in Christian spaces…

Y’all taught us this.

No Kings sign:
13 YEARS of CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
EXPECT ME TO NOT LOVE MY NEIGHBOR ??

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 7h

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 8h

The top of two prominent newspapers’ mobile editions right now—and the reason that, despite growing up in New York, I always read @theguardian.com first (and rarely open @nytimes.com):

The Guardian

No Kings protests
Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump

US politics Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

In pictures No Kings protests across the US

NYT:

Social Media, Pleas From Allies and Prison Essays:
How Santos Won His
Freedom
On Friday evening, former Representative George Santos walked out of prison after President Trump commuted his seven-year sentence.
8 MIN READ

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 7h

Two things:
1. We got under his skin.
2. He desperately wants to be a king and he's big mad that 7 million of us came out and said he isn't.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."

AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

So the GOP was "mostly quiet" all day today during the protests, and apparently spent all that time to come up with the strategy of responding with "hell yes, we want Trump as king?" and they think that's going to resonate?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

Outside of typical remarks from Donald Trump, JD Vance and Mike Johnson and a Fox News report, party stayed mum

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

Broke: We will intimidate our enemies with our planes and our fasces
Woke: We will intimidate our enemies with our planes and our feces.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.

I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest

A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 7h

Every Republican on the Sunday shows should be forced to comment on this. Show them. Make them watch

That won't happen. But should

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

Portland ICE facility now.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 7h

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old drug addict post AI vids wearing a crown flying a fighter jet dropping sh*t on US citizens at a rally the same week he bitched out the world for not getting Nobel Peace prize & blew up boats so he could joke about it before.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Every Republican on the Sunday shows should be forced to watch the Air Feces One video and then be asked, “Is the President sane?”

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 6h

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

The latest AP-NORC poll had Trump at 37% approval, but, sure, lean into Trump-is-King. Good idea.

MAGA really doesn't know how to think about anything except to take the opposite position of their enemies, real or perceived.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 10h

Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.

Jd Vance posted an AI video of trump as a king. Complete with crowned and sword. They fucking love their kings..

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

As "No Kings Day" draws to a successful close, a reminder of the delirious, mad real king, George III, America said "no" to before it said "no" to the delirious, mad wannabe king today, Donald Trump. (Jonathan Groff is insanely good in this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5JA...

You'll Be Back - Hamilton (Original Cast 2016 - Live) [HD]

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

Weird.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 9h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 9h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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